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The Underground Thomist

Heroic Virtue

Submitted by jbudziszewski on Sun, 01/11/2015 - 00:00

Once, monasteries preserved civilization through chaos. Today, intact families fill that role. Fathers and mothers, especially you who are young and struggling, hail and greetings! What were once the most mundane of virtues have in our time become rare and heroic. Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn their children to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.